Unlicensed vehicle

markweber

Hi,
I parked my untaxed vehicle outside my home.
My vehicle was clamped. I paid already £260 to DVLA and of course I taxed my vehicle. Now I got a second letter from DVLA. They say that my vehicle has been seen on the street the same day and it was untaxed. I have to pay now £480. Is that legal? I already paid £260!!!!

Marktheshark

Basically, yes, it's either taxed or Sorn.

Rover_Driver

markweber wrote: »

Hi,
I parked my untaxed vehicle outside my home.
My vehicle was clamped. I paid already £260 to DVLA and of course I taxed my vehicle. Now I got a second letter from DVLA. They say that my vehicle has been seen on the street the same day and it was untaxed. I have to pay now £480. Is that legal? I already paid £260!!!!

May be the two different matters - the £260 clamp removal fee, and now a £480 out of court settlement offer/outstanding duty claim for the offence of keeping an unlicensed vehicle on a public road.

Strider590

DVLA (enforcement/whatever dept) are in the business of basically ripping off the hard working public.

If your hard to trace, possibly of foreign orgins and register the car to a fake name/address, they just give up and you can basically drive around with no tax or insurance for as long as you like.

Modern Britain eh

markweber

I see, thanks for your help.
They are asking me for the statement. Can I write that somebody else parked this van there, like for example my friend or somebody who borrowed my car?

Stoke

Strider590 wrote: »

DVLA (enforcement/whatever dept) are in the business of basically ripping off the hard working public.

If your hard to trace, possibly of foreign orgins and register the car to a fake name/address, they just give up and you can basically drive around with no tax or insurance for as long as you like.

Modern Britain eh

Sad as it sounds, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. There's a takeaway wagon just around the corner from me, the owners of which of a from a certain background (no offence to the PC brigade). There's no insurance on the vehicle, no tax, no MOT, and it's driven by about 8 different young lads. What's more, they routinely park it fully on the pavement while they pick up their deliveries from the takeaway.

Never seen a DVLA vehicle near them. Park your vehicle outside your house for one night without insurance and you'll be guaranteed the DVLA hit squad will be out to make you pay what they're wrongfully owed.

marlot

markweber wrote: »

I see, thanks for your help.
They are asking me for the statement. Can I write that somebody else parked this van there, like for example my friend or somebody who borrowed my car?

Would that person have been driving the vehicle without insurance?

It is an offence for the car owner to allow someone to drive without insurance, so you could both be in a lot more bother.

facade

markweber wrote: »

I see, thanks for your help.
They are asking me for the statement. Can I write that somebody else parked this van there, like for example my friend or somebody who borrowed my car?

You can say what you like, it is the registered keeper who is liable for the fine for breaching SORN. (Because it isn't SORN'd, and it was seen on the road by DVLA people, or it is SORNED and it was seen on the road)

There is a fine & back duty to pay, and the release fee that you paid already.


They will also get you under continuous insurance if it isn't insured on its own policy and isn't SORN, or is spotted on the road. :eek:

Double_V

Stoke wrote: »

Sad as it sounds, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. There's a takeaway wagon just around the corner from me, the owners of which of a from a certain background (no offence to the PC brigade). There's no insurance on the vehicle, no tax, no MOT, and it's driven by about 8 different young lads. What's more, they routinely park it fully on the pavement while they pick up their deliveries from the takeaway.

Never seen a DVLA vehicle near them. Park your vehicle outside your house for one night without insurance and you'll be guaranteed the DVLA hit squad will be out to make you pay what they're wrongfully owed.

This is so sad but true.
I have had parking ticket issued while the car was parked in my own bay yet people who leave cars on unauthorized area gets nothing.
Makes me so angry.

Hopefully all goes well for you.

markweber

The car has been kept on private road for a year. I moved it into a public road which is just a few yards away from my private parking. Nobody have seen me driving this car. Could I tell them that car was transported on the car trolley and left in the public place instead of public place?

Would that make a sens for them?

s_b

hi markweber you might like to look up the definition of perjury before you start writing things down with a blunt instrument

seriously